Chapter XXVIIIb

The material body viewed as a prison, tomb, or source of error that hinders spiritual knowledge and return.

The passage contrasts divine fabrication with material powers, implying the lower realm hinders true divine production.

Ontological opposition between two primal principles (light/darkness, truth/lie, spirit/matter) as the fundamental structure of reality.

The text establishes a clear ontological opposition between divine fabrication and artificial material commixture.

The doctrine that God has no parts, divisions, or composite attributes; pure undivided being.

The passage centrally defines nature's accomplishment through 'simple and incomposite energies' as opposed to composite material powers.

Augustinian and Plotinian doctrine that evil has no positive being of its own but is a lack, distortion, or absence of the good — denying ontological dualism while preserving moral seriousness.

Artificial commixture is described as a separation from divine fabrication and natural production, implying a deficiency or distortion of the good.

The absolutely simple, undivided first principle from which all multiplicity and existence flows.

The reference to a 'simple and incomposite energies' suggests a singular, undivided source of creation distinct from composite material powers.

The doctrine that all existence is ultimately one substance or one divine reality; non-duality as a theological claim.

The description of nature accomplishing all things collectively implies an underlying unity in the cosmic order.